UNNATURAL presents scientific,
romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature
through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the
twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means
and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both
the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such
fusion.
The artists selected for UNNATURAL
come from diverse cultural backgrounds and work in a wide range of
media including video, photography, sculpture and
installation. These artists seem to be stretching the limits of time and
place, while collecting and assembling imagery from different sources to create
a new, artificial form of nature. The majority of the artists in this
show are Israeli-born which charges the exhibition with a political accent
that relates to nature, territories and landscape in critical ways.
UNNATURAL represents the far-fetched
fusion of reality, fantasy and simulation. At the same time, it shows the
freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make
the inconceivable conceivable. It reveals how the unmediated sense of awe
and wonder provoked by nature has been replaced by the work of art, which
enables us to marvel at the act of representation and to re-imagine nature,
while celebrating the wonders of the human imagination.
Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Miami Beach - Art Deco District/South Beach
305/673-7530
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